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PISCATAWAY — After the unit he mentors yielded just 18 sacks combined during the 2006 and ’07 seasons, Kyle Flood wasn’t looking in the past.

So now that Flood is coming off undoubtedly the worst professional year of his mostly successful tenure, the Scarlet Knights seventh-year offensive line coach isn’t about to focus his attention on what happened last season.

Did Flood go back and study what led to Rutgers yielding an NCAA-worst 61 sacks? Of course. But that transpired in the months after the Scarlet Knights concluded their 4-8 campaign.

These days, his only focus is molding Rutgers’ blocking unit into, he said, “the best we can be.”

“I think what I want is for them to focus on is today’s practice,” Flood said. “That’s the most important thing for this football team. But speaking of the offensive line, anything that happened in the past is the past. Anything that’s going to happen a few weeks from now we can’t control that yet, either.

“But if we’re going to be the best offensive line we can be, everyday has to be, ‘Okay, what is it that we’re doing well right now and what is it that we need to do better? Can we focus on that, can we chop through it, and then after practice tonight let’s focus on this meeting.’ I think if you focus on anything other than that, you’re distracting yourself from what’s really important, which is what you’re right now.”

The search is over. After Jay Young moved on to take the Fairfield Stags head coaching spot, Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell had a major hole to fill on his assistant coaching staff. And while it seems like Pikiell did his due diligence interviewing for the position, he didn’t have to go far to fill it. […]

As East coast temperatures continue to rise, so do expectations for next season We are just now arriving at Memorial Day weekend, but the optimism around the Rutgers men’s basketball program is already in full bloom. Next season is the most anticipated in many years and postseason aspirations are warranted. Entering year four of the […]